Voice of the people (letter).

Different Gods

December 29, 1998|By Marty Nachel.

ORLAND PARK — In his Dec. 14 column Douglas W. Kmiec complains that yet another public institution, in this case the local high school, is denying the existence of God, by "mistaking the guarantee of freedom of religion for the distorted claim of freedom from religion."

The local school was right to apologize to district families for the improper mailing of an art contest flyer titled "Keep Christ in Christmas Project." . Though "we are a nation premised upon the unequivocal affirmation of belief in a transcendent God," as Kmiec points out, our individual beliefs in that God should not be assumed to be the same.